The Bugs amongst Us

The Bugs amongst Us

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Bugs & us: The role of the gut in autoimmunity

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a multifactorial disease and requires interaction between genetic and environmental factors for predisposition. The presence of bacterial DNA of the gut residing commensals in synovium as well as dysbiosis of certain commensal bacteria in faecal samples of RA patients as compared to controls suggest a significant role of the gut flora in pathogenesis of RA. The gut ...

Control of Uav Swarms: What the Bugs Can Teach Us

This article describes research in the control of UAVs. Control strategies exist for individual UAVs, but not for large, coordinated teams. While there is a general agreement that a cooperative, team or swarm approach to UAV control can be beneficial for a number of military and civilian applications, little work has been done to understand if and when it even makes sense to use more than a sin...

Who amongst us will be selected?

Good Bugs Vs . Bad Bugs

Control of micro-organisms during completion of hydraulically fractured wells is a significant component in successful development of a production system. Detrimental bacteria—“bad bugs”—such as sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) introduced into the reservoir during drilling or completion, can facilitate biogenic sulfide production, resulting in souring of production fluids and gas, iron sulfide f...